Slick Social Share Buttons also includes a social statistics page in Wordpress admin, which gives you complete share totals for each page, post and category page.

The plugin has a range of options giving you full control of position of button panel, size of social media buttons, display order and whether to show or hide the floating or sticky panel on page load.

The plugin gives you the choice to include the social media share buttons on:

If you are looking for a non-Wordpress version, which can be used on all websites check out our Premium jQuery Social Share Buttons Plugin – allows you to add all of the main social media share buttons to any web page – no PHP required!

After selecting the button and plugin options click “Save” to activate the buttons on your Wordpress website

Floating/Sticky Tab Options

The type and position of the social button panel can be configured via the plugin settings page in Wordpress admin:

Method

Select either a “floating” panel or a sticky “Sliding” tab

Location:

The position of the social button panel in the browser window:

Position From Center

Only available if using floating buttons. Check this if you wish to have the floating button panel positioned from the center of the page as opposed to the edge of the browser. In the text box enter the number of pixels that the panel should be positioned from the center of the screen. Useful for fixed width websites.

If not checked the position of the floating panel will be based on the edge of the browser – i.e. if the browser window is reduced the buttons will move towards the center.

Offset

Offset allows you to fine tune the positioning by adding the number of pixels that you would like to offset the panel from the edge of the browser window.

For sliding tabs only one offset is used:

Top-left & bottom-left – number of pixels from left edge of browser

Top-right & bottom-right – number of pixels from right edge of browser

Left & right – number of px from the top of the browser window

Floating social buttons:

Top-left & left – pixels from top & pixels from left

Top-right & right – pixels from top, & pixels from right

Bottom-left – pixels from bottom & pixels from left

Bottom-right – pixels from bottom & pixels from right

Direction

Only applicable for “Slide Out” panels. This allows you to select whether the buttons are displayed horizontally or vertically.

Disable Floating Effects

If checked the floating style animation used for the floating buttons panel will be disabled and the panel will now stick to its location in the browser (only applicable to floating button panels)

Floating Speed:

The speed for the floating animation (only applicable for the floating type) in milliseconds – i.e. the time it takes to “catch up” when the page scrolls up or down) – e.g. to set the floating speed to 1.5 seconds use 1500.

The default speed is set to 1.6 secs.

Animation Speed:

The speed in milliseconds to open and close the button panel.

The default speed is set to 0.6 secs.

Auto-Close:

If checked, the panel will automatically slide closed when the user clicks anywhere else in the browser window

Load Open:

If checked, the social buttons will be displayed open when the page first loads. The tab will still close the panel when clicked.

Default Skin:

Check this box to use the default skin that comes with the plugin. To use your own styles uncheck the box and add the CSS to your theme’s style sheet. The default CSS file can be used as a template.

Tab Image URL:

To use your own image for the button panel tab insert the full URL for the image into the text field. Leave the box empty if you wish to use the default “Share” tab that comes with the plugin.

Page Display Options

Check the boxes of those pages/posts where you would like the social media buttons to appear:

Wordpress Home page

Posts page – if using a static home page this will be the page that displays posts

Posts

Pages

Category Pages

Archive Pages

Excluding Individual Categories

For category pages you also have the option to specify any categories you would like to exclude from showing the social media buttons.

Click the “Show Categories” link to display a complete list of all categories on your website. Clicking on a category will move the category between the include and exclude lists.

Click the “Save” button once you have selected the relevant categories.

If a category is excluded the social media buttons will not appear on the category page or any post assigned to that category.

Social Media Button Options

To disable a button uncheck the checkbox next to the button name.

The size of each button and whether to display a count of total shares for that page can be selected from the dropdown menu. A sample showing an actual, active button with the selected settings will display in the right-hand column.

The buttons will display on the website in the same order that they are listed in the settings page. To change this order drag & drop the buttons and arrange as required.

Current Supported Social Media Share Buttons:

Twitter Button

Facebook Like

Google +1 Button

Delicious Button

LinkedIn Button

StumbleUpon Button

Digg Button

Reddit Button

Buffer Button

Pinterest “Pin It” Share Button

In addition to the basic settings some Social APIs require additional information.

Twitter

Input your twitter username (minus the ‘@’ symbol) to include this in the tweet.

Facebook

The facebook like button includes the option to use either the iFrame or xfbml methods of adding the button.

If you select the xfbml version you must add the following settings:

Either a Facebook App ID or a Facebook Admin ID – although both can be entered you only need one for the xfbml version to work.

Default Facebook Image – enter the URL for an image that will be entered into the facebook open graph meta tag in the event that a post thumbnail is not available for the page.

Disable Opengraph – if you already have a plugin adding the facebook opengraph settings you can disable this plugin adding an additional set by checking this checkbox.

Pinterest.com Pin It

The pinterest button now has 2 options available (starting version 2.4).

Featured – The image will be set to the “featured” image in the post.

Preview – select this option if you want to let your user select which image to use – clicking the “Pin It” button will bring up an overlay containing thumbnails of relevant media found on the page. The user can click one of these images to select it for posting onto their pinterest board.

Twitter URL Shortening

The plugin includes the option to select URL shortening for twitter from several services:

Bit.ly

Digg

Su.pr

tinyurl

If using bit.ly the API Key and account login must also be entered. For su.pr these are both optional.

Social Statistics & Metrics

Starting with version 2.0, the Slick Social Share Buttons plugin now includes a statistics page in Wordpress admin, which gives you a complete overview and summaries of shares on your posts, pages and category pages.

To access this page go to Wordpress Admin -> Social Buttons -> Social Stats

Social Stats options include:

Show

Select whether to show just your home page, posts, pages or category pages. Selecting the pages option will also include the home page results as the first item.

Filter

Available for posts only this lets you filter the results by category.

Order By

Select whether to sort the results by either date or alphabetically by title in either ascending or descending order. Only available for posts or pages.

Display

Show the total shares per URL either as text, text using conditional formatting to give a data “heatmap” or as active share buttons.

Note: selecting the “buttons” option will increase loading time as each button must be generated from the relevant social network site.

Per Page

Adjust the number of results per page. For faster loading time select a lower number per page.

Shortcodes

The plugin includes the feature to add text links within your site content that will open/close the sticky or floating button panel.

Click the links below to open/close the share button panel.

[dcssb-link] – default link, which will toggle the social share button panel open/closed with the link text “Share”

Troubleshooting & Frequently Asked Questions

Many issues that can crop up with installing and using the plugin with different themes have also been covered in our comments section. Please check previous comments and FAQ for further information/tips.

For plugin customisations or additional support please contact us for a quotation.

Demos for WordPress Social Share Buttons Plugin

Plugin also used on this site – see social share buttons on left. Additional demos include:

Download Slick Social Share Buttons plugin

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Screenshots

Example of vertical sliding social buttons panel

Example of horizontal sliding social buttons panel

Example of floating panel

Social Statistics admin page

Other Social Media/Network Plugins

If you like Slick Social Share Buttons then try out our other social media Wordpress plugins:

Social Media Tabs

Add a facebook like box, google +1, google buzz, twitter and RSS profiles and feeds to any widget area with compact, slick sliding tabs. Plugin has the option of adding the tabbed box to either a slide out panel at the side of your browser window or as a static tabbed box in your widget area – see plugin page

Floating Tweets

The Floating Tweets plugin adds a floating, slide out tab containing the latest tweets from any twitter account. The widget is easily set up via any widget panel and can handle multiple twitter feeds per page – see plugin page

777 Comments

I installed the plugin and it seems to have issue with my theme. I am getting everything to work, but there is a problem with the tab. It slides out when you click on it, but slides back immediately. There is no time for the user to click one of the like buttons since the tab slides back before they get a chance. Is there a solution for this? Thanks!

No idea sorry. You need to check with the theme author or if you want to look through the files I would suggest looking as the js files. It would probably involved “.tab” as the selector in the jQuery code since thats the part of the plugin that’s being affected.

Your plugin has everything I’m looking for. However, I’m trying to setup so it will display at the bottom of each post (not floating, but permanently fixed)
I’ve tried playing around with the settings, but after a 1-2 seconds delay, only the green share icon “floats”.
Only when clicked will it display the social network buttons.
I’m using WP 3.3.1
Any idea what I’m doing wrong?
Otherwise, if I can make it work – it is by far the best plugin I’ve seen.

Will you be implementing something similar to what I’m referring to? I would not mind a paid version based on your plugin concept. Right now, you can see my blog at http://blog.background-checks-systems.com and see that I’m using 4 different plugins at bottom of each post. Due to this, they don’t align nicely.

I’m aware that there are other “all-in-one” social plugins, but yours had the better configuration options.

Thanks, Lee. The Pin it button does work with “Featured Image” in Firefox. Really liked the possibility of the user choosing which image to pin that you built into v2.4. Maybe it’ll work in Firefox in the near future.

Admin2012 Apr 11 at 9:09 pm

The button already does work. There are no errors in the plugin code so the problem must be with the theme or another plugin

Never come across the problem. All of the buttons use exactly the same source to get the link so its either an error in the twitter code (this I have seen before caused by plugins, which try to rewrite external links so they open in a new window) or an error with a shortener service if you are using one.

You can check the latter by seeing if your posts have custom field values with the name “dcssb_short_url”. Otherwise would need to see the page source code to see what values are being sent to twitter

One snag. I have not found any combination of settings that works well when viewing the page on a phone. The “Share” tab stays on the screen, and always covers part of the content. With static “on the page” buttons (as opposed to your dynamic “on the screen” buttons) this is not such an issue.

Perhaps an idea for a future update: switch to static “on the page” buttons when a small screen is detected?

I love using the social slick share buttons. Whit the latest update I face a little difficulties – the LinkedIn and pinterest buttons really don’t look fine for me, because the LinkedIn counting number isn’t next to the LinkedIn button, while the pinterest doesn’t even have a button with its logo (icon) with.

I really don’t want to use something else, so please look into the problem.

I seem to be having the same problem as another person who commented above. My plugin in activated, and my setting saved, but nothing is showing up on any part of the website. Does this plugin not work for certain themes?

No it will work for all WordPress themes assuming the theme follows standard wordpress layout. If there is no button code appearing in the page then the wp_footer() function must be missing from the theme’s footer.php file

Hi! Thanks a lot for a great plugin!
However the Pin it button doesn’t seem to work. After I pin a picture, the pin process didn’t go through and it kept asking me to put in description for the pin. Could you please review this?

I’m using the Elegant Themes Handheld plugin to display my site in mobile format when viewed on a smartphone. When this happens, the Slick Social Share Buttons cover up my blog posts. Is there any way to disable this plugin only when viewed on a mobile device?

I cannot get this plugin to work. I’ve enabled the floating bar on post pages, yet nothing’s appearing. I use the Thesis theme, which has no footer.php file. I’m also using the W3 Total Cache plugin, and I wonder if that might be conflicting? I disabled JS minification, but this plugin still doesn’t work for me.

Thanks in advance, the plugin looks awesome, so I hope I’ll be able to use it!
Diana